Baudrillard Now

Ryan Bishop is professor of global arts and politics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: The End of Baudrillard and BeyondRyan Bishop 11 Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007): A Critical OverviewDouglas Kellner 172 Baudrillard and the Evil GeniusRyan Bishop and John Phillips 283 Baudrillard, Death, and Cold War TheoryRyan Bishop 474 Swan's Way: Care of Self in the HyperrealMark Poster 725 Et in Arizona Ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the ApesJohn Beck 1006 Pursuit in ParisJohn Armitage 1167 What is a Tank?Ryan Bishop and John Phillips 1368 Some Reflections on Baudrillard's "On Disappearance"Douglas Kellner 1549 Humanity's EndJohn Phillips 159Index 172

"Contains excellent stuff for anyone passionate about Baudrillard, about contemporary media culture, and especially about that which should have us think more: the brutal state of the world now."International Journal of Baudrillard Studies "At last a critical volume that dares bringing Baudrillard to where he really belongs: dialectics, hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, boldly calling upon Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida and Foucault to illuminate the relation of his thought to contemporary society, culture and theory. A real breakthrough."Sylvere Lotringer, Columbia University"I did not realize how much I missed Baudrillard's presence in the world and in that of critical thought until I read this collection of assessments by master interpreters of his later work and exemplary producers of original critical work under its influence. Baudrillard himself is gone but his later works, considered perhaps excessive and faux-oracular, are becoming only richer guides for present becomings."George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine"Ryan Bishop's career exemplifies rigorous theoretical and historical engagement with pressing material and symbolic problems. In Baudrillard Now, he extends his thinking to renew Baudrillard's insistent value for a new generation of intellectuals and makers of culture. In a time of rampant messianism and apocalyptic visionaries, Bishop does the world a service in giving us a Baudrillard who warns us there can be apocalyptic visions neither induced nor comforted by revelation."Paul A. Bové, University of Pittsburgh"This excellent, thought-provoking collection - written by leading experts - makes a vital contribution to the current debate on the work of Jean Baudrillard."Mike Gane, University of Loughborough